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| Verlag | Penguin Books UK |
| Auflage | 2025 |
| Seiten | 400 |
| Format | 12,9 x 19,7 x 2,3 cm |
| B-format paperback | |
| Gewicht | 296 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| Reihe | Penguin Modern Classics |
| EAN | 9780241759011 |
| Bestell-Nr | 24175901EA |
A definitive annotated edition of one of the greatest of Terry Pratchett's multi-million-bestselling Discworld novels
'A master storyteller' A.S. Byatt
'Both comic and dark, blending high fantasy, twisted storytelling and all manner of wordplay ... a fine place to start reading Pratchett' The New York Times Book Review
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is in hot pursuit of a serial killer. The trouble is, a well-timed lightning strike has thrown both policeman and pursued into the city's past. Now Vimes must relive the history that made him: a cruel regime, a bloody revolution, a corrupt police force, and, most unnerving of all, a keen young recruit named Sam Vimes... Night Watch, which draws on inspirations as far ranging as Victor Hugo and M_A_S_H, is a keen satire about the true nature of political power, and the sacrifices made in the name of the greater good; but also a profoundly empathetic novel about community, connection and the t enacity of the human spirit.
This edition of Night Watch - written at the height of Pratchett's imaginative powers - includes a new foreword by Rob Wilkins and an introduction and annotations by Dr David Lloyd and Dr Darryl Jones, contextualising the novel and Pratchett's far-reaching legacy for new readers and current fans alike.
Rezension:
Compulsively readable. . . . Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent. He shares with Aristophanes a sense of the comedian's mission to teach, and with Sophocles a concern to examine the rule of law versus the rights of the individual Guardian
